J. G. Ballard + Social Media -- the Virtual & the Real

The ever-relevant Ballardian.com has put up a new article, this one about J. G. Ballard predicting Social Media.

Here's a quote / preview:

[Everybody] will be living inside a TV studio.  

That's what the domestic home aspires to these days ... 

We're all going to be starring in our own sit-coms, 

and they'll be very strange sit-coms, too, like the inside of our heads.  

That's going to come, I'm absolutely sure of that, 

and it'll really shake up everything.

-- J.G. Ballard

Read the rest of the article here:

 ['No Original Response: J.G. Ballard Predicts Social Media, CCTV, Reality TV' ]

(what better way to talk about the condemnation of social media than on my personal blog?)

Although the article's title makes mention of Reality TV, 

it doesn't talk at much length about the topic, 

but I guess it shares principles with CCTV & Social Media?

Reality TV sort of borrows CCTV's "form" but applies the mechanics of traditional entertainment TV & Social Media.

I'm not the most familiar with J. G. Ballard's work, I've read The Day of Creation and a few of his short stories, but what I have read was intriguing -- and Ballardian.com has a lot of interesting articles and essays applying Ballardianism to our present day and age.

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